- Critical 9.3
CVE-2026-47218
runwasi facilitates running Wasm and WASI workloads managed by containerd. Prior to 0.6.1, containerd-shim-wasmtime-v1 can treat Wasmtime precompiled bytes supplied directly in an OCI image layer as a trusted artifact from the precompile-cache path and deserialize them as native code. An attacker who causes a victim to run a crafted image can bypass WebAssembly validation and execute native code in the shim zygote process, gaining the filesystem, environment, credentials, networking, and Linux syscall access available to the workload container. Downstream shims built with runwasi's containerd…
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The facts
- Published
- 15 October 2026
- Last changed
- 16 October 2026
- NVD status
- Awaiting Analysis
- Severity
- Critical, CVSS 9.3 out of 10 (version 4.0)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R… - Weakness
- Known exploited
- Not in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue in this build.
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days (percentile 32).
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